Self Catering B&B Accomodation, breakfast food provided by us.

A variation on self catering in that we provide food breakfast. Cereals, tea and coffee are provided. If you intend to self cater for evening meals we provide all the bits and pieces, salt and pepper, mustards sauces etc for cooking. We find it annoying to stay in places with bare cupboards where you have to take every item so we leave available all the items we use when we stay there ourselves.

Chivas Cottage is a  3 bedroom terraced cottage available to let to persons attending courses, or just wanting a place to stay..
Situated about 1 mile from our Wentworth shop it's the ideal place to stay if you have a free sampling session or tuition, or if you simply want to have a few woolly days away with friends.

About Chivas Cottage

The cottage is around 200 years old and is a listed building due to its association with the start of the Industrial Revolution.The nearby Newcomen Beam Engine has been described by English Heritage as the single most important Industrial monument in the world. The cottage started off in life as part of a group of industrial buildings. Probably part of the tar distillery. Evidence of the industrial use can be found in the original back wall of the building where there is a basket arch in the wall.

Now the middle of a terrace of 3 cottages. Around 1814 it was a tar distillery for a short period of time. The buildings were then converted into small two room cottages about 150 years ago. In the more recent past in 1986  they were renovated  and two cottages were combined into one, hence the two numbers for our address and the two doors in the photo above. Many of the interesting old features have been retained whilst being modernised to a high standard. In spring of 2008 an extension was added to give a third bedroom, and downstairs shower wet room with toilet, and utility room.

Price Chivas Cottage
2012 Hire rates per night;
Single £60.00
Two persons £80.00
Three persons £95.00
Four or more persons £105.00 (maximum 6 bed spaces)
Three bedrooms with twin beds in two rooms and a double in third room. 
Included in the price are all the items for a cereal breakfast. We provide tea, fruit teas, coffee, a selection of condiments spices etc. This is to try and help out so that you are not bringing lots of extra things.
No additional charges for heating etc

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Facilities and Services Chivas Cottge   

Fully equipped combined kitchen, dining, lounge area with full central heating and log fire. See pictures above. Small sheltered lawned garden with seating for sitting out on warm evenings. To the rear a shelterd yard with seating.

Three bedrooms with twin beds in two rooms and a double in third room. There is a bed setee in the lounge but we do not include this is the bed spaces but it could be used if required.

Food for a cereal breakfast each day will be provided by us for self catering. This comprises of a selection of cereals, bread, jams and marmalade, fruit juice. Selection of teas and coffee. milk, butter and condiments.

• Adjacent to the bedrooms bathroom/toilet, shower over bath.
• Ground floor toilet and shower wet room
• Lounge, dining and kitchen area combined
• Large 5 burner gas cooker and large oven, microwave, toaster. All pans and crockery if you want to self cater in the evenings all the bits and pieces are provided.
• Utility room, washing machine, dryer and electric hob. This is a wet working area which could be used for dyeing and felt making..
• Full very efficient gas central heating. Woodburning/solid fuel stove for winter. Fuel provided
• Sheltered lawned garden with decking and seating.
• Parking area for 2 cars . 
• Hire rate includes all services, bed linen and towels.
• A collection of textile books to browse through
• Television, Freeview, Video, DVD and CD player
• Friendly neighbours
• No additional charges will be made.

Chivas Cottage Availability

Bookings which begin Friday or before may continue until 11am Saturday or through the weekend. We do not have any Saturday arrivals as this is our day off. Keys are not sent out in advance as we always personally open up the cottage and show you around
For evening meals you can self cater. The cottage has a 5 burner gas/electric range cooker with a fully equiped kitchen. We provide all the bits and pieces salt, pepper etc which are often not to be found in a self catering property. No need to bring lots of extras.
There are shops about 10 mins by car in Hoyland. There is a Co-op supermarket open until 9pm
There are a few pubs in the vicinity which serve food. The George and Dragon in Wentworth. There is also the Rockingham Arms in Wentworth, The Milton in Elsecar and the Elephant and Castle at Tingle Bridge. In Hoyland there is Elachi, an Indian restaurant.

By car

The cottage keys are to be collected from Wingham Wool Work in Wentworth

Finding the cottage is relatively easy as there are many of the brown Tourist direction signs for Elsecar Heritage Centre which guide you in. On reaching the centre ignore the signs for the public entrance and look for the service entrance sign. The cottage is not in the centre, just that we are on the same road as the service entrance. On the map below follow the directions to the brown Elsecar.

Chivas Cottage, 5 Distillery Side is found by following the Heritage Centre Service Entrance sign. This takes you onto Distillery Side. Cross the Railway line. Go straight ahead for about 75 metres. On the left is the Newcomen Engine house, opposite on the right there is a row of cottages at a right angle to the road, the middle one is Chivas Cottage. Parking is just past the row of cottages in front of the second garage, number 5 on the door, 2 parking places in front of the garage door. The cottage entrance is through the arched gateway adjacent to the parking area. Number 5 on the gate.